Cuba to lift broad travel restrictions

Cuba will scrap travel restrictions starting in January, easing most Cubans' exit and return, state media said on Tuesday in the island's first major immigration reform in half a century.

The Cuban government imposed broad restrictions on travel starting in 1961, after the 1959 revolution that put Fidel Castro in power.

The government will lift requirements to obtain an exit visa permitting departure from Cuba and a letter of invitation from someone in the destination country.